Interactions between climate and landscape drive Holocene ecological change in a High Arctic lake on Somerset Island, Nunavut, Canada

• Published in: Arctic Science
• Main Authors: Tara M. Paull, Sarah A. Finkelstein, Konrad Gajewski
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; French
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2017
• Subjects: paleoclimate; holocene; canadian arctic archipelago; lake sediments; diatoms; paleolimnology; pollen; diatom dissolution; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Environmental engineering; TA170-171; Arctic; Nunavut; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Canada; Arctic Lake; Somerset Island; Arctic Archipelago
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2016-0013; https://doaj.org/article/038c3f13a38a477791a85f89c0da03d9

This study presents a diatom-based analysis of the post-glacial Holocene environmental history at Lake RS29 on Somerset Island in the Canadian High Arctic. Earliest post-glacial diatom assemblages (10 200–10 000 cal yr BP) consisted mainly of small, benthic fragilarioid taxa. Poor diatom preservatio...